Big news on the Hill but also coming at NATO today:

On how to Trump proof the transatlantic alliance: 'You beat Donald Trump.' US Senator Chris Murphy 🟧 explains that a second Trump administration would be a disaster for Europe. #BrusselsForum

Steve Biegun is here. He’s now svp of global public policy at Boeing and a GMF trustee. Last time I saw him was on the floor at Shangri-La, I believe, when he was negotiating w North Korea and news broke that his counterpart there had been executed.

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The audience just cheered this news live at #BrusselsForum :

What can Europe to do Trump-proof the alliance? - Asks Henry Foy

Chris Murphy 🟧: “Beat Donald Trump”

Sen. Chris Murphy 🟧 says the NATO Summit in July first is a chance to “sell NATO” to the American people and not be ashamed to do so. Many U.S. lawmakers scheduled to appear on stage here had to cancel their travel because of the long-delayed supplemental vote.
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Checkout this cool event space. I asked the organizers if the phantom was going to make the chandelier crash. Brb, looking for an organ to play the main theme as loud as I can.
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“In America, it seems there’s a competition of who is smarter and who is tougher” on China - Gunnar Wiegand, former Managing Director for Asia Pacific, European External Action Service
#BrusselsForum European External Action Service - EEAS 🇪🇺 German Marshall Fund

First in today's Global Playbook — #IMF staff to strike, plus all the latest from last night's POLITICO party.

Also, the IMFC meets this morning in a bid to hammer out a joint communique

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China shows Congress how easy it is to force a nation off undesirable social media apps: nytimes.com/2024/04/18/tec…

Europe is too reliant on China to make powder for ammunition and risks a supply crisis that could threaten the continent’s security, one of the EU’s most important defense contractors warned.
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Voldemort is on the hill, y’all.

It takes a 4.4 GPA and 1390 SAT to get into FSU now. Times have changed.